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Why Nyeri youths desert villages for Mandera

NYERI COUNTY: Perhaps the biggest question that could be lingering in the minds of many Kenyans is why hundreds of people leave their homes to work in Mandera in the wake of terror threats.

But as bees are attracted to nectar, so were hundreds of Nyeri residents enticed by the good tidings the quarry industry in the faraway county brought to their tables.

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